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Joyce Kilmer

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born

December 06, 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, The United States

died

July 30, 1918

gender

male

genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

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Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a short poem entitled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of his works are unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. Several critics, both Kilmer's contemporaries and modern scholars, disparaged Kilmer's work as being too simple, overly sentimental, and suggested that his style was far too traditional, even archaic.

At the time of his deployment to Europe during the first World War (1914–1918),...more

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Books by Joyce Kilmer

Average rating: 3.71 · 21 ratings · 3 reviews · 22 distinct works

	Trees & Other Poems 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1994 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Anthology of Catholic Poets 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1917 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Works of Joyce Kilmer (2 book set) by Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	The Circus and Other Essays 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Trees & Other Poems 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1914	My rating:
	Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and Poems by Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Main Street and Other Poems 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Summer of Love, by Joyce Kilmer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Joyce Kilmer (Volume 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Summer of Love (The Collected Works of Joyce Kilmer - 10 Volumes) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1919 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Joyce Kilmer

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

tags: god , inspirational , poem , poems , rain , tree

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“The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.”
― Joyce Kilmer

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“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

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